Re: [HPDD-discuss] [PATCH 2/11] Staging: lustre: fld: Use kzalloc and kfree

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On Sat, 2 May 2015, Dan Carpenter wrote:

> On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 09:13:11PM +0000, Drokin, Oleg wrote:
> > >> The patch was submitted.
> > >> But it depends on a symbol that's not exported.
> > >> I was not able to change that.
> > >> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg83997.html
> > > 
> > > But you were given a hint on how to change that :)
> > 
> > Well, the hint amounted to "don't do vmalloc if you cannot live with the
> > GFP_KERNEL" allocations.
> > 
> 
> Which email is that?
> 
> I only see where David says to implement vmalloc_node_gfp() and the talk
> was about if that makes sense from a style perspective and then dies.
> 
> Anyway, this only seems to affect ptlrpc_alloc_rqbd() since  I think
> that's the only place which calls OBD_CPT_ALLOC_PTR().  The rest can use
> __vmalloc().

I think you mean "that's the only place which calls OBD_CPT_ALLOC_LARGE".

julia

> 
> regards,
> dan carpenter
> 
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